Progressive Overload

The other day (Nov 6,2009), a few of us at work decided that it was well past time to empty out our mini-fridge so that we could de-ice it and give it a little once over with some cleaner as well.  I really wish I had had the forethought to document this entire process with photos as there were some other visually funny moments along the way.

Thankfully, I did happen to catch this beautiful item unearthed from the depths of our time capsule of a mini-fridge.  What you see below is a package of Earthbound Organice Carrots with Ranch Dip dating back to October 2004! (that is what the expiration date was).  

These pics are frustratingly poor quality, but I hope you can tell that the carrots have biodegraded to almost nothing...just some brown/green mush.

So, naturally I started to wonder what was going on in the world when these carrots last saw the light of day. 

Most of October 2004 news is full of conflict in Iraq, bombings, and other non-humerous events.  So I will just pretend that these carrots weren't traumatized by that news, and only heard about the cool stuff.

October 3, 2004:

Todd Zeile of the New York Mets Major League Baseball franchise hit a home run in his last at-bat of his career.

October 4, 2004:

Scaled Composites SpaceShipOne reaches an estimated altitude of 112.2 km (69.7 miles), lands safely and wins the Ansari X Prize.

October 6, 2004:

Mark Chapman, the man who killed John Lennon, is denied parole for the third consecutive time.

October 10, 2004:

Christopher Reeve who played Superman in the movie passes away.

October 16,2004:

Expedition 10, carrying cosmonauts Salizhan Sharipov and Yuri Shargin, and astronaut Leroy Chiao, docks successfully at the International Space Station. Chiao and Sharipov will be relieving Mike Fincke and Gennady Padalka from Expedition 9, and will spend six months aboard the station.

October 18, 2004:

Early voting begins in Florida and ten other U.S. states for the 2004 U.S. presidential election, which officially takes place November 2.

October 20, 2004:

Ubuntu released its first version of the Linux operating system, called Warty Warthog (4.10). It is based on the Linux distribution Debian.

October 27, 2004:

The Boston Red Sox win their first World Series title since 1918 — and break the "Curse of the Bambino" — by beating the St. Louis Cardinals 3–0 in the fourth game of the 2004 World Series of baseball.

source for news items: wikipedia